DESCRIPTION

The aim of this issue is to explicate and further develop recent work bridging traditional divisions between analytic and continental philosophy.

Since the waning days of logical positivism, analytic philosophers have tended to understand philosophy as having a “core” of metaphysics construed broadly enough to include work in epistemology, logic, and the philosophy of mind. Continental philosophers, on the other hand, have traditionally viewed either phenomenology or value theory as most central to the philosophical enterprise. Despite pursuing common problems and sharing much common heritage, analytic and continental philosophy have remained methodologically and sociologically divided.

There have always been bridges across the divide, though. For example, French philosophers such as Jacques Bouveresse, Frédéric Nef, and Claudine Tiercelin as well as German philosophers such as Markus Gabriel and Ernst Tugendhat have engaged profoundly with analytic philosophy while philosophers on the analytic side, such as Hubert Dreyfus, Wilfrid Sellars, John McDowell, and Robert Stern have engaged deeply with phenomenology and the German idealist tradition. And the recent spate of discussion concerning speculative realism and object-oriented ontology in continental philosophy has brought to the fore many questions central to analytic metaphysics, albeit now historically informed by continental traditions such as critical theory, German idealism, phenomenology, and post-structuralism. This “metaphysical turn” (and its discontents) in continental philosophy has both opened broad new vistas of potential work across the divide and made us more attentive to the work of scholars such as Lee Braver and Samuel Wheeler who all along have been working in both traditions.

HOW TO SUBMIT

Submissions will be due by June 10, 2018. To submit an article for the special issue of Open Philosophy, authors are asked to access the on-line submission system at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/opphil